I created webapp design in Adobe XD.
Now I want to create that design in Webstorm using Bootstrap framework and HTML.
Is there tool, which can recognize items from .xd files?
Or at least where I can create items in GUI, which translates my item into HTML (for example blue square button with text inside which changes opacity when having mouse arrow on it)?
Some tools make it easier to convert the design to code, but you'll (probably) won't get around writing code to get a good website.
First of all, there is no real way to directly "convert" prototypes to websites. There are now some plugins to make things like this easier (e.g. "Lightning Storm CC"), but in all honesty, that doesn't get you around writing code yourself.
Also, it could be challenging to implement a custom design with Bootstrap (or did you use a Bootstrap UI Kit for Adobe XD?), since Bootstrap itself makes it quite tricky to achieve custom designs.
All in all, I think the solution you're looking for doesn't exist. Some tools are making it more comfortable, but you won't get around writing code when implementing a custom design. I think the truth is that there are two options: Implement a custom design (with code!) or don't care about the design aspects and use framework X (here Bootstrap).
I think easiest way is to export the design from xd using any tools to html, here is another tool might be useful "web export"
after that you just have to implement bootstrap and start adding classes to your components button,input...etc
but as mr pklaschka said it's hard to do custom without getting your hand dirty with some codes
good luck
Is there tool, which can recognize items from .xd files?
Or at least where I can create items in GUI, which translates my item into HTML (for example blue square button with text inside which changes opacity when having mouse arrow on it)?
You can use Desech Studio to import your xd file and then you need to adjust some margins and sizes. This will convert it to vanilla html/css, not bootstrap.
After that you can switch to Webstorm and code your website there, or you can stay synced with Desech Studio and integrate with react, angular, vue etc.
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We are using ngzorro (angular third party material) in our project. The project is almost halfway through. We face some issues in customizing styles. Management asking whether we can continue with ng zorro or style using normal CSS.
Can anyone please suggest at this point which is good? Following ngzorro or designing using your own CSS.
My project is completely done so far using ngzorro. My project involves various forms and charts. Also please tell me the drawbacks of using angular materials instead of styling using normal CSS.
I tried to follow the style of ngZorro where I could. In some cases where it was needed like:
text color of enabled and disabled elements
background color of enabled and disabled elements
width and height
margin and padding
own icons and text
I applied some own css rules.
As always it depends on the complexity of your project and given design. Regarding my experience I remember that applying your my own CSS rules was easy to accomplish and not that time consuming.
Regarding the drawbacks...
Using angular material design and defining you're own css classes is no contradiction. Thanks to angular material and it's friends I'm not in the pressure of reinventing the wheel. It's well thought out and went though a lot of dev stages my own CSS would need to go it self. I rather like to extend the given design where it is needed.
As a front-end designer converting designs (PSD, Sketch, AdobeXD, ..etc) to dynamic HTML pages manual. I'm using bootstrap framework with jQuery library.
When I started this job it took long time to convert the designs to html, after that the time decreased because the work becomes classic and it is routine. But every design is different and I start from the scratch using bootstrap component then adding my override CSS and JS.
I wondering if there is tools or ideas to improve my work and do things faster??
What I know is that I can create my own JS or CSS codes that I use
usually (common things). Then, I can include these files all projects
that I'm working on.
I need other tools and ideas to use.
There are different front end starter tools (boilerplate) which you may use as a basis and write you code on top of them each time.
Also consider remove bootstrap if you need everytime to override it, as you said.
It is better to have less dependencies for sure.
Also try to write your html/css as like you create page full of components, which are independent. Use CSS BEM methodology and try to make components as reausable as you can.
In that into mind you may create something like your own library / framework of most used common components between projects and just to include them everytime.
You may provide simple customization via CSS native variables or LESS/SASS ones with help of mixins.
I am new to front end web development. I work with a designer who makes mockups (no html) wire frames and the finished product is a React/Angular single page application.
I was thinking of this workflow.
1) Get the mockup wireframe
2) Recreate it in HTML/CSS and collaborate with the designer to make quick changes.
3) After completion, then take the HTML and convert it to the React/Angular single page application.
Thanks.
Hi Mitch welcome to web dev!
So I can't say I'd recommend that workflow exactly, only because you don't want to have to write and rewrite code and make it into components.
Working with a designer myself we collaborate closely on a daily basis. If your designer is using sketch (which he loves) he can create wireframes and prototypes. Our workflow is similar to what you are proposing, this is what we do:
We have a feature request that we need to design and build
He creates a mockup / wireframe
Then he whips that up into a prototype (optional)
From there I turn the prototype into working code (we use angular)
When I think I have recreated his prototype I ask him to look it over and we discuss from there.
For me, it is easy to go back and fix some CSS or change some HTML around, just keep everything organized and well commented so you can easily change stuff in the future as your app grows.
One other thing I would recommend is that you should create your own form of a wireframe so that you can see how your components are going to be placed and interacting with one another.
I hope that this helps you and your designer come up with a workflow that you both enjoy!
This is my workflow. I import the figma, sketch, adobexd design file into Desech Studio to get a clean html structure positioned with css grids. Then I need to adjust the margins and sizes and I'm done with the conversion. And finally I work on the responsiveness of the website.
Then I install and enable the react plugin and when I save the project, it will export react code. And then I work on the react code and components. Here's the github repository for the react plugin.
I am Java developer before but now i am starting to work only on UI. I have little experience with UI. So I need a tool for Html 5.0, css 3.0, & angular Js.
Taking the comment above into account it is right for me to say the following answer is based on assumption but here we go:
I'm not quite sure what you mean by tools but if you mean a program to create your code in I would personally recommend Sublime text or Atom.
If you mean tools that are easily available to you to test and play around with your code then there are a number that are available to you, JSFiddle, Codepen and Liveweave are just a few.
I personally use Codepen as it has a nice and easy to use interface and I like the community around it, the homepage features a "picked" section which showcases user created content, it does however seem to have a heavy focus on "pretty" projects rather than functional ones. The editor it offers allows users to use a number of HTML, CSS and Javascript processors as well as use libraries such as Angular and JQuery. I created multiple angular projects using Codepen so I know it is capable of that and it is also really easy to implement it into a pen/project.
I hope this has answered the question but please remember that this is all my opinion each one of these things has their own strengths and weaknesses and overall the choice should be yours.
This is using MVC 4 with Visual Studio 2013:
I am wondering on how I would approach changing the text of my website dynamically through the click of a button. This is also the same for contrast. I am wondering if there's any plug ins or approaches I can take to do this?
Heres an example of it being implemented correctly : http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/guides/change_colours/#
Giving different text sizes and contrasts etc. How would I approach this?
My idea was to have a button that calls the same CSS sheet with the new colour /contracts. But that would mean I would need about 4-5 CSS sheets that are exactly the same with just the text/contrast changing. Is there a better approach to this?
May be Observables and data-binding is your best solution here.
Basically, you can bind your html with observables (your data model). When your data model's state changes, your UI updates automatically and vice-versa. It follows the MVVM pattern.
One of the most popular libraries out their for MVVM is Knockout.js (Here: http://knockoutjs.com/) This will make your life much easier! It made mine. :-)
Hope this helps!